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Legal practitioner at the Legal Resources Centre, Abraham Amaleba, has called for an objective non-partisan approach in dealing with what he has described as the genocidal comments by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Assin North. Kennedy Agyapong was, on Monday, invited by the police on a possible charge of treason, for inciting supporters of the party to foment violence in the round-up to the December polls. Mr Amaleba told XYZ News however, that Mr. Agyepong�s comments do not necessarily amount to treason but genocide which is equally dangerous and punishable by law. �If he is trying to overthrow the government of the day, that could be treasonable but if you call on people to attack another ethnic group or to attack a section of the population, then you are calling for genocide.� Mr. Amaleba has therefore called on security agencies to dig deeper into the matter and execute the case dispassionately and according to the dictates of the law. �We should allow the security agencies to pick anybody who inspires violence and who wants to plunge this country into chaos� They are becoming common, we should not allow them. There must be a point where we say that enough is enough.� Meanwhile, the Media Foundation for West Africa says it expects the leadership of the New Patrotic Party (NPP) to condemn Mr. Agyepong�s comments for its potential of disrupting the peace of the country.